Professor and Associate Department Head, MIT Department of Physics; also MIT Kavli Institute. Formerly Astrophysics Division Head (2019 - 2023). Formerly Class of 1956 Career Development Professor. Formerly Adam J. Burgasser Chair in Astrophysics. Fellow of the American Physical Society. Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Are you First Generation? I am too, and am happy to talk with MIT students about life as a First Gen student. |
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Departmental webpage.
A schedule of upcoming talks and travel.
My research papers.
Some interviews and online talks:
Interview
(text and audio) with the The
Atlantic magazine following the first direct detection of of
gravitational waves
Public lecture at
the Westport Astronomical Society
(Connecticut)
Public
lecture at PES University
(Bengaluru, India)
Interview with Singularity, the Astronomy
club of IISER Kolkata
(Kolkata, India)
5th Amal Kumar
Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture, Presidency University (Kolkata,
India)
Interview
with STARLOG, mostly discussing
black holes and Rush
Many spring semesters: 8.962 (graduate general relativity).
F19, F21: 8.033 (undergraduate relativity).
S14, S15, S16, S17, S18: 8.901 (graduate astrophysics I).
F13, F15, F16: 8.07 (electricity and magnetism II).
Past MIT courses:
I have taught 8.022 quite a few times
(lectures S04, S05; recitations S03, F03, F05, F08, F14, S21; lecture
notes here).
2006 School
of Science Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2005 William W. Buechner
Teaching Prize.
Lecture notes for the last iteration of my undergrad relativity course
available here; for the grad
version here.
Plus some other courses (e.g., 8.04, 8.971).
Even further back: Once upon a time, I taught freshman physics at Caltech; here are notes from that course.
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Images taken from NYT article Decoding the Antiwar Messages of Miniature Protesters in Russia.